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His name is He Liesheng. He runs a bed linen company in Nanjing, China. And,
as the self-styled “eagle dad” of the internet, he is currently a global
hate figure.

For He Liesheng forced his four-year-old son, during an icy New York holiday,
to perform press-ups and run aimlessly around the snow-covered city streets
while wearing only shoes, underpants, and an expression of abject whimpering
misery.

This training routine, recorded on camera, was designed to develop a
“masculine temperament” in the boy, according to He (who chose the eagle dad
moniker as a nod to Amy Chua’s no-nonsense tiger mother).